On June 1st, Empyrean Services celebrates its 20th year of supplying premier nuclear consulting and professional services.
The company’s first engagement featured the company’s founder and President and CEO, Sushil Jain, providing executive consulting services to Nebraska Public Power District’s Cooper Nuclear Station. Soon thereafter, the Company started to provide similar services to other nuclear utilities. Empyrean then landed its first government contract at the Hanford site and has never looked back! Since its inception, Empyrean has enjoyed providing top quality talent to the nuclear industry and as a result, has participated in many of the nations’ largest and most visible and successful commercial and government nuclear projects. Today, Empyrean Services is recognized as a key provider of consulting and staff augmentation services to the North American nuclear industry supporting advanced reactor designs, nuclear new-build, and nuclear plant services. In addition, Empyrean has established itself as a key player in the US Nuclear Plant Decommissioning market supporting commercial, as well as research reactor, decommissioning.
Jain adds: “As a company keenly focused on integrity and professionalism in all that we do, we are very proud of our accomplishments. We wish to share our anniversary with you, our customers, whom we have had the pleasure of serving these past 20 years. Our growth and accomplishments would not have been possible without you, and we look forward to serving you for the next 20 years! I am especially proud of our exceptionally talented employee base whose loyalty, sincerity and professional support is unmatched. I offer my heartfelt thanks to all who have helped us achieve this key milestone”.

Empyrean Staff has made a significant contribution to the local Food Bank to provide food for people adversely affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Funds were specifically earmarked for providing lunch for kids who have lost access to such meals because of school closures.

“ Empyrean, since 2000, has enjoyed a very special and successful business as a member of the Pittsburgh community. It is only fitting that we give back to the community that has supported us, especially in time of need such as this”, says Sushil Jain, Empyrean’s President and CEO”.

As a dedicated and loyal partner and a supplier, we want to take this opportunity during these trying times to reiterate and emphasize our deep commitment to the safety of our customers and employees emblematic of the Empyrean brand.

We understand and appreciate the logistical complexities that you, like us, are dealing with during this unprecedented event. Please know that together, we are making complex decisions on a daily basis to keep our workforce and communities safe, while also reassuring the nation that the reliability of critical assets related to our nation’s energy infrastructure is not jeopardized.

Many of you may be wondering how Empyrean is adapting to this changing global environment, and how we can help your teams stay connected and productive. We take our role as a partner in supporting you and your business very seriously, and we want to assure you that we have taken the necessary steps to comply with CDC guidelines, while seamlessly performing our services as expected.

To that end, Empyrean Management has implemented proactive measures to:

Minimize and contain the spread of COVID-19 virus.

Ensure the health and well-being of all employees, and

Seamlessly accomplish the following goals:

Provide accurate and timely payment to all employees at-large

Submit invoices in a timely fashion with no interruption or delays

Continue support of client requests (Contracts, Proposals and Recruitment Needs)

In summary, we want you to know that we are here for you, and we will do everything within our power to help you get past these trying times.

Darrell Williams, Manager-Business Development for The Empyrean Group, has been elected to the FOF Golf Association’s Board of Directors.

The FOF Golf Association has been working for over fifty years to provide social opportunities for the regional Power and Industrial Owners, Contractors, Engineers, Vendor and Suppliers. The organization has made significant charitable contributions to many worthy groups as a result of promoting attendance to our annual Golf Outing, Sporting Clay Shoot, and Dinner Dance.

“It is an absolute honor to be offered the opportunity to serve in this prestigious organization”, Williams notes. ” At a time when the fossil industry is facing significant challenges both from an economic and philosophic perspective, it is extremely rewarding to serve in a capacity that highlights our ability, as colleagues, clients, and competitors, to join forces and focus our energies on the common good”.

Williams will be formally inducted at the Annual FOF meeting on February 15th, 2020.

The power industry is changing. Plants are closing or converting to natural gas. The workforce is aging, creating a gap in resources. We don’t know what the future holds.

The good news is Empyrean can support you where you are now. We have teams of technical resources ready to work, with utility outage experience. Free Agent Nation has emerged, creating a workforce that prefers project work with variety and flexibility.

The benefits to utility organizations include a well-staffed, experienced workforce able to support outages and other project work for a fraction of the cost compared to supporting dozens of direct hire employees. Reach out to Empyrean. We take the headaches away and get the job done.

You are tasked with impossible challenges. Sometimes regulatory agencies are breathing down your neck. You are worried about the safety of your employees and the community. Your company has to make more money to keep your job.

There’s no question our jobs can be stressful. What do you do when you’re feeling overwhelmed? I call in help. I look for experts that have worked on this challenge before. Sometimes I outsource a challenge that is not part of my team’s core competency.

Empyrean stands ready to assist you with technical challenges, management challenges and many challenges in between. Reach out and call us. We can most likely help you. And you’ll be happy you did.

I’ve always been a supporter of equality on all fronts. Working for a woman and minority-owned business, though, has allowed me to dig a bit more into the implicit biases and reasons for companies to have supplier diversity programs. As it turns out, a diversified supply chain leads to greater profit too!\

Click here to read a fantastic article, which highlights all of the great reasons to have a robust supplier diversity program.
Empyrean has been a thriving business since the early 2000’s. We have two operating companies – Empyrean Services (nuclear focused technical consulting and staffing, small business, minority-owned) and The Empyrean Group (technical consulting and staffing, small business, minority and woman-owned).

What differentiates us? Two things: (1) Our bench of experts (executives, engineers, project managers, etc.) number in the thousands, which has turned into an evolving network of former clients, long-standing employees and really… friends, and (2) Our recruiting team is second-to-none. I am amazed how quickly they can fill vital engineering roles or nuclear oversight professionals for our clients!

We are happy to call you part of our network of friends. Please reach out if you would like to learn more or chat about an upcoming project. Thank you!

It’s been tried before, but hasn’t quite hit the mark. You’ve probably built your own workarounds to make the process more efficient. The suppliers charge too much money and want ongoing maintenance fees.

The industry has struggled with how to best plan for both short-term and long-term with existing tools and systems. Pulling data from other databases (sometimes legacy – aka “very old” – databases) is time-consuming and introduces potential errors.

Empyrean is now offering a service to implement the “Design Engineering Work Management Tool,” which offers two key elements – People and Process. The process includes automating the integration of multiple systems (P6, SAP, Maximo, etc.). The people element, though, is what makes the service a success. We ensure buy-in throughout the organization and build the process around the team’s interests and strengths.

We customize the service to include just what each client needs (budget, time and outcomes). The first step is to schedule a webinar to gather information. We will then (1) ensure this tool will get you what you need, and (2) design a proposal to meet those needs.

Reach out today to learn more and schedule the initial free consultation!

What makes a great thought leader? Someone with ideas, a passion for progress and improvement, and the willingness to share.

You are cordially invited to join the “Empyrean Thought Leaders” network, which we are just now launching. The goal is to build an active community of experts where we discuss challenges in the energy industry and surface solutions and ideas for improvement.